A boxing promoter has filed a lawsuit against former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe, trying to keep him from a fight scheduled for Thursday because negotiations for a Utah bout fell apart last month.

Mark Alexander and Mike Vollmert were just sitting there, good friends and regular Joes, watching a college basketball game at Long Beach Arena in 1990, and really had no idea they were about to become addicts, or that one day their most desired destination would be Boise.

The next bout on the comeback trail for former heavyweight boxing champion Riddick Bowe will likely be in Salt Lake City, officials said. Bowe will fight Willie Chapman (18-20-3) of Ogden on March 25, officials at the Delta Center announced Monday.

VIERA, Fla. Frank Robinson was 11 years old when a Robinson named Jackie broke major-league baseball's color blockade, if not the game's remaining veiled codes for bigotry. The stealthy stench of racism would linger in baseball's front offices until liquor pried open Al Campanis' loose lips four decades years later and doors begrudgingly were nudged open for shunned minorities.

North Carolina State running back T.A. McLendon, who rushed for almost 2,500 yards, will forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft, the school said Monday. McLendon finished his career with 2,479 yards, the eighth-best mark in school history.

The new football coach at Texas-El Paso actually is two different people. One is a respected coach who moved up the ladder by winning in places such as Ogden, Utah, and Pullman, Wash.The other guy had his reputation trashed and career derailed because of what allegedly took place one weekend in Florida. Meet Mike Price.

"Suffers from a bit of the 'Jack of all trades, master of none' syndrome," noted a GameSpy.com editor. "Why try for 31 flavors when you can't even get vanilla right?" added the Chicago Sun-Times. "It's two, two, two flops in one," chimed in Business 2.0 magazine.